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W. THOMSON.

BANK ACCOUNT BOOK.

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BAN 14 ace 0 n N r e do SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Pate11t1 'fo.385,64-8, dated July 3, 1888.

Application filed December 31, 1886. Serial No. 223,131. (No model.)

To aZZ 1071 0221, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, W'ALTER THOMSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fargo, in the county of Cass and Territory of Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bank Accouut'Books, of which the following is a specification, referonce being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Figure l is a perspective view of an account-book opened, showing the present invention. Fig. 2 is a like view, the outer edge of the first short leaf folded over to allow the accountto continue uninterruptedly. Fig. 3 is a like view as Figs. 1 and 2, the first short leaf turned back onto the wide primary leaf preceding it.

This invention relates chiefly to accountbooks used in banks to show in a convenient form the state of each depositors account.

In the accompanying drawings, A denotes an accountbook prepared in any usual manner to keep the accounts of bank-depositors, except in the particular forms of construction which will be hereinafter more fully described and explained. The leaves of this hook are made up of a series of short ones, interspersed with a long leaf. By the terms short and long, applied to the leaves, is meant, first, a leaf which does not extend fully to the edge of the book, and, secondly, the long leaf is one of the ordinary size relative to the covers of the hook. Each of the leaves B is creased or perforated at b, not far from its right-hand edge and parallel thereto, so that the margin or portion b beyond the line may, when desired, be easily turned back upon the body of the leaf.

In using the book, in the first instance, on the long page is written, down the left-hand margin, in the usual manner, the depositors names. The several pages of the book are ruled and otherwise. except as is peculiar to my invention, prepared as usual for keeping the de iiositors accounts. When in the course of business these accounts have reached to the line perforated,where the part b of the leaf B can be turned, the balances are thereon duly entered. Thus when the leaf B is turned over upon the said leaf A,and the part of said leaf B folded so as to come down upon the opposite side of said leaf B, the balances thereon entered,as above stated,will now be in proper relation to the names of the depositors e11- tered, as has been above stated, on the leftf, where the depositors names end.

hand edge of page G. Then the book-keeper can go on with his entries till he has reached the line of crease or perforation in the next leaf B, and so he will go on with his entries till he comes to the next full leaf 0, when it will be necessary to enter again the depositors names, and go on in connection with the next series of short leaves as he has done in the first instance.

In Fig. 1 the first short page, B, is flat with page G, and the edge b of the first short page slightly turned in.

In Fig. 2 the first short page has been turned over and the strip b straightened out, so that its edge comes just against the vertical linef The figures on the turned-down part I) show the balance of each depositor. These deposit account-hooks may be of any desired size or shape, and with each full page there maybe as many intermediate short leaves as may be desired.

' I do not wish to limit this invention to bank-depositors books only, for the principle may be applied to books for many other purposes, wherever successive entries are to be made, following a set of names or other general matters to which the entries have a common relation.

Having now described my invention, what I claim is 1. The bank account-book A,having a suitable numher of full leaves, 0, and alternate series of short leaves, B, each of said short leaves having margin b creased or perforated at 11, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The bank account-book herein described, composed of alternate long and series of short leaves, the several long leaves prepared to re ceive the depositors names on the left-hand side,and both also prepared to receive the accounts for several successive days, the right hand end of each of said short leaves having a margin to receive the last days balance, which margin is adapted by folding to form the beginning of the next days account on the next page.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WALTER THOMSON.

\Vitnesses:

H. C. SOUTHARD, ORM W. Framers. 

